The thing about kinetic kill vehicles aimed at earth is that, to cause any sort of damage, it's going to be massive enough that there's no "abort", long after you've aimed it, and are waiting for it. I don't see the appeal of that for the military.

It was North Korea. They're paid under the table by the US military indus trial complex to keep the knees a'jerkin' ; the herp a'derpin'. This keeps the cash flowing to those foul factor ies of evil. We don't need Death MachineF-∞, but they want you to think we do.F*cktards.

Quantum Apostrophe:LookForTheArrow: The thing about kinetic kill vehicles aimed at earth is that

if you had the energy to move that mass in the first place, might as well just use that energy directly instead of some convoluted Rube Goldberg sci-fi fantasy.

i was imagining ion drives strapped to iron rich rocks picked out before hand for their orbit, etc.. might take weeks to line something like that up, but it'd be very cheap and nearly the same as space mining.

i'm just reminded of a bit of trivia about cars: the brakes must dissipate at least 8 times the energy the engine puts out to be "safe"... and that translates into poor reaction time if you suspected someone of doing that on the "cheap" out there.

The Snow Dog:It was North Korea. They're paid under the table by the US military indus trial complex to keep the knees a'jerkin' ; the herp a'derpin'. This keeps the cash flowing to those foul factor ies of evil. We don't need Death MachineF-∞, but they want you to think we do.F*cktards.

The part about the whole meteor story that most cracks me up is the fact that the we got so much good footage because the cops are so corrupt in Russia that everyone drives around with a dashcam running all the time. They've turned into a bunch of Little Brothers constantly watching the state.

The Snow Dog:It was North Korea. They're paid under the table by the US military indus trial complex to keep the knees a'jerkin' ; the herp a'derpin'. This keeps the cash flowing to those foul factor ies of evil. We don't need Death MachineF-∞, but they want you to think we do.F*cktards.

Not that I'm paranoid, stricken with insomnia or that I listen to Coast to Coast, but George Noory is saying meteors were just seen over San Franfreako, and I just heard the emergency alert test on my radio in Virginia.

megarian:The Snow Dog: It was North Korea. They're paid under the table by the US military indus trial complex to keep the knees a'jerkin' ; the herp a'derpin'. This keeps the cash flowing to those foul factor ies of evil. We don't need Death MachineF-∞, but they want you to think we do.F*cktards.

Did...did we just see a stroke via words? Are you okay?

If he was having a stroke he'd just say 'aaaaargh'. He wouldn't bother carving typing it.

Harvey Manfrenjensenjen:I already saw this movie last year, when it was called "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol". That version was slightly more believable, but both still suck.

I'm a big Brad Bird fan, but that movie lost me in the last act. I can kind of suspend disbelief enough to accept a magical Spider-Man glove, but I had to call bullshiat when it came to the missile launch. As soon as that Russian bird launched, the Russian sub would have been immediately torpedoed by the Los Angeles or Seawolf sub that was shadowing it, which would have basically started a US/Russia shooting war, which probably would have quickly escalated into a full nuclear exchange as each side would have thought that the other side was making a first strike. The lone warhead that they disarmed at the last minute before it hit San Francisco wouldn't matter at all because by the time it arrived, a full nuclear war would already have been in progress. There's just no way that you can defuse that situation like they showed in the movie.

Stinkyy:Not that I'm paranoid, stricken with insomnia or that I listen to Coast to Coast, but George Noory is saying meteors were just seen over San Franfreako, and I just heard the emergency alert test on my radio in Virginia.

They said "the fireball over the Bay Area was not related to asteroids". Soooo rogue fireball? That's comforting. Thanks, news.

Mad_Radhu:Harvey Manfrenjensenjen: I already saw this movie last year, when it was called "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol". That version was slightly more believable, but both still suck.

I'm a big Brad Bird fan, but that movie lost me in the last act. I can kind of suspend disbelief enough to accept a magical Spider-Man glove, but I had to call bullshiat when it came to the missile launch. As soon as that Russian bird launched, the Russian sub would have been immediately torpedoed by the Los Angeles or Seawolf sub that was shadowing it, which would have basically started a US/Russia shooting war, which probably would have quickly escalated into a full nuclear exchange as each side would have thought that the other side was making a first strike. The lone warhead that they disarmed at the last minute before it hit San Francisco wouldn't matter at all because by the time it arrived, a full nuclear war would already have been in progress. There's just no way that you can defuse that situation like they showed in the movie.

Hmm, now I'm curious if our subs have authorization to attack on launch, it would seem a war warning or several levels of protocol would be necessary.

megarian:Stinkyy: Not that I'm paranoid, stricken with insomnia or that I listen to Coast to Coast, but George Noory is saying meteors were just seen over San Franfreako, and I just heard the emergency alert test on my radio in Virginia.

They said "the fireball over the Bay Area was not related to asteroids". Soooo rogue fireball? That's comforting. Thanks, news.

netringer:If it was near the US, besides aiming our nukes at Pakistan, we'd have Fox and Glenn Beck and Rush and Rosie and Sarah Palin entertaining us with all kinds of theories.

"You just know that this is just a plan by Obama to take away our rocks."

Every thread about how things are farked up in another country, there has to be some pedantic asshole who points out America isn't perfect either. Yeah, we get it, asshole, but we're not talking about America now. If you want to shiat on America, there are plenty of threads where America is actually the subject. We're talking about Russia right now, dickhead.

It's like, what if I started a thread about whatever bugs are plaguing OS X Mountain Lion, and then some asswipe barged in and was like, "Yeah, yeah, but Windows 8 sucks donkey balls, so it's all relative!" I'd be like, "STFU, asswipe! We'll talk about Windows 8 some other time! Either stay on topic or GTFO!"